Double batten for ribbon-looms.



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CARL SCHNEIDER-GERSTER, OF GELTERKINDEN, SWITZERLAND.

DOUBLE BATTEN FOR RIBBON-LOOMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

App1icaton filed April 8, 1907. Serial No. 366,959.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL SCHNEIDER- GERSTER, a citizen of Switzerland,residing at Gelterkinden, Switzerland, `have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in a Double Batten for Ribbon-Looms, of which thefollowing is a specification.

There are already known to be in use double battens in ribbon looms, inwhich, for the purpose of reducing the breadth of the loom, the guidesof the upper row of shuttles are arranged alternately to those of thelower row of shuttles. double batten for ribbon looms which constitutesthe subject of the present invention. In the case of the known doublebattens of this kind, the shuttle guides are fixed by screws or similarmeans to supporting rods or plates, while, to render the fitting of theshuttle guides easier and to reduce the space necessary to the smallestamount, according to my invention, the shuttle guides of one row andthose of the other row which alternate with theml are mounted at theirends, by means of eyes, u on small pins supported by the batten-cheell;and batten-head, so that one end eye of each shuttle guide of one row,and the adjoining end eye of the neighboring shuttle guide of the otherrow are both placed upon one of those pins and are held in position, bycollars placed upon each pin, at a due distance from each other and fromthe batten-cheek and hatten-head. j

The drawing attached hereto shows one example of the construction ofthis new double batten for ribbon looms.

Figure 1 shows in front elevation a portion of the batten, so far as isnecessary to explain the invention. In particular the driving mechanismfor the shuttles has been left out for the sake of clearness. Fig. 2 isa section of the line X--X and Fig. 3 one on the line Y-Y in Fi 1.

A is the atten-cheek and B Vthe Abattenhead consisting of two rods lyingone behind the other. C are the shuttle guides of the upper, and D thoseof the lower row, and, as is to be seen in Fig. 1, the shuttle guides COf this nature also is theV are arranged alternately to those indicatedby D. These shuttle guides each have on the back two end eyes c Fig. 2,and are mounted loosely by means of same upon pins E and in such a waythat one end eye of each shuttle guide C and the adjoining end eye ofthe neighboring shuttle guide D are both placed upon one ofthe pins E.

The pins E which, according to the drawing, are circular in section, arefixed below in the hatten-cheek and above between the rods held togetherby screws which form the batten-head; and upon the pins, between theshuttle guides C and those marked D, between the shuttle guides C andthe hatten-head B, and between the shuttle guides D and the hatten-cheekA, are placed collars e which have the purpose of keeping the shuttleguides in position with respect to each other and to the batten-cheekand battenhead in such a way that all the shuttle guides C are atexactly the same level, and also those marked D. Between each pair ofadjacent pins E a slay F is arranged, which, on one hand, is set into agroove in the battencheek, and, on the other, fixed between the rods ofthe batten-head by means of a screw G are the shuttles, of which one isavailable for each of the gangs of warp threads led through the slay slits F (the drawing shows onlytwo shuttles Each shuttle makes its strokebetween two adjacent guides by being driven from one into the other.This drive may be eHected, e. g., for the upper row of shuttles by adriving rod with projections vreaching between and propelling theindividual shuttles, which rod is moved to and from along l.thehatten-head; while for the lower row of shuttles there is provided a rodmovable to and fro and fitted with driving fingers reaching between theindividual shuttles. This driving mechanism has been left out of thedrawing for the sake of clearness and as it can be understood withoutfurther illustration.

The shuttle guides consist, in the drawing, of one piece; but they couldalso be made in upper and lower halves. The pins carrying the shuttleguides could also be made square instead of round in section.

What I claim as my invention and desire 5 to secure by Letters Patent isIn a double betten for ribbon looms, a batten cheek and betten head,vertical rods mounted on said cheek and head, shuttle races arranged intwo rows alternately with 10 each other and provided with lugs havingeyes adapted to fit over said vertical rods, and distance pieces betweenthe lugs, betten cheek and betten head, substantially :1s hereindescribed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set J5 my hand in the presenee of twowitnesses. CARL SCHNEID ER-G Ell STER, Vtnesses: A

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